Category: information technology


May
2022

India privacy

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, media literacy

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/india-orders-vpn-companies-to-collect-and-hand-over-user-data/

A new government order will force virtual private networks to store user data for five years or longer.

The directive isn’t limited to VPN providers. Data centers and cloud service providers are both listed under the same provision. The companies will have to keep customer information even after the customer has canceled their subscription or account.

India has a history of applying a heavy hand to online activity.

In April, India banned 22 YouTube channels. In 2021, Facebook, Google Twitter ended a tense stand-off with the Indian government when they largely complied with the government’s expanded control over social media content in the country. In 2020, the country banned over 200 Chinese apps, including TikTok, and ultimately banned 9,849 social media URLs.


May
2022

deep fakes trusted more the real pictures

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

May
2022

social media and social credit system

categories: Digital literacy, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, media literacy, social media

One of China’s biggest social networks is revealing user locations to head off ‘bad behaviour’

https://www.techradar.com/news/one-of-chinas-biggest-social-networks-is-revealing-user-locations-to-head-off-bad-behaviour

euters reports that Weibo will begin showing the rough locations of its users using IP addresses to combat “bad behaviour” online. The locations show up on both profiles and posts.

Chinese citizens have long resorted to using VPNs and other privacy tools to help either access non-Chinese services or speak freely online and you can see why.

In a similar view to the Panopticon, visibly showing users that the service knows where they are will lead to self-censorship, reducing the strain on Chinese censors to cover an internet with hundreds of millions of users.

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more on social credit system in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=china+social


Apr
2022

DJI drones

categories: educational technology, information technology, instructional technology

DJI suspends sales in Ukraine and Russia

The company, which became a favorite target of the Trump administration, has been working to avoid accusations that it’s been favoring any one side in the conflict. Ukraine officials have, however, previously implied that the company might have intentionally sabotaged its products. For its part, DJI has insisted that its products are not sold for military purposes.


Apr
2022

Open Skills Management Toolkit (OSMT)

categories: academic library, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, Project Based Learning, student-centered learning

Western Governors University Releases Open-Source Code to Facilitate Universal Skills Language

https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom/press-release/2021/11/wgu-releases-open-source-code-to-facilitate-universal-skills.html

he Open Skills Network (OSN), a community of practice focused on skills-based education and hiring that represents more than 1,200 employers, educational providers, and technology companies,

By launching OSMT as an open-source project, WGU has enabled any educational institution, training program, or employer to freely deploy and use OSMT to translate curriculum, training and development programs, and job profiles into real world skills statements to inform educational program and curriculum design, as well as job role and task definitions.

learner-workers are empowered to use their skills as currency. OSMT has been integrated into Concentric Sky’s Badgr micro-credentialing platform, facilitating the creation of digital credentials that align to Open Skills, creating the building blocks for the shift to skills-based education and hiring.


Apr
2022

google data and privacy

categories: Digital literacy, information technology, privacy
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